Introduction

Crank Storyboard Suite is composed of two components that work together to
provide a complete graphical user interface development and deployment
environment targeted specifically at the needs of embedded user interface
developers.

Storyboard Designer provides a host (Windows/Mac/Linux) based graphical
development environment that provides a drag and drop approach to building the
user interface using elements familiar to graphic designers, such as Photoshop
files and true type fonts.

When a design is ready for testing, it can be either simulated in the desktop
environment or easily deployed to an embedded target via an operating system and
architecture independent data file that is interpreted by Storyboard Engine.
Storyboard Engine is an interpreter that is highly portable and specifically
optimized for a specific combination of CPU, operating system and rendering
technology.

These two technologies, Storyboard Designer and Storyboard Engine, provide a
highly efficient way of transforming user interface prototypes created by
graphic designers, using tools such as Photoshop, into working applications
ready for deployment.